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Javagal Srinath stresses on fine management skills

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Mumbai: Fine management skills, match preparedness and bringing harmony into the relationship between the players and umpires were some of the points Javagal Srinath highlighted at the BCCI’s seminar for about 40 match referees at the Cricket Centre here on Tuesday.

Srinath, an Elite Panel Referee of the International Cricket Council (ICC), impressed upon the match referees, majority of them retired first class players, the processes involved in the conduct of a match.

“Subtle skills are required,” said Srinath, who along with Suresh Shastri and Ameish Saheba will be attending the ICC Referees and Umpires Seminar in Johannesburg from September 23 to 25.

The BCCI’s domestic season is scheduled to start with the Irani Cup match between Mumbai and Rest of India at Rajkot from Oct. 6.

Among the many initiatives taken by the BCCI to streamline and improve supervision of the matches is to digitally record all the senior tournament matches, post umpire’s coach and also regulate the roles of the umpires and match referees.

On Monday, the BCCI held a seminar for a batch of umpire’s coaches where former all-India panel umpire Bomi Jamula made a presentation on the format to be followed and on Tuesday Srinath defined the role of the match referees.

Srinath has been posted to officiate the five-match series between Sri Lanka and England after the Twenty20 competition in South Africa.

Srinath advised the match referees to manage a match and not run it and allow the players and umpires to play their respective roles.

He said the match referees should coordinate the activities between the officials and should not be seen or heard, and if something has gone wrong, they should make a note of it and bring it before the authorities in writing.

“They should also have the contact details of important officials, including security and police personnel in order to deal with unforeseen happenings. Match referees are responsible for the safety of the players,” said Jamula.

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